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Znet Article Hass: The god of big things

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Amira Hass
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A month ago, as she faced a roomful of journalists in Italy, writer Arundhati Roy was asked what it is like to be an icon of peace-seekers around the world. "First of all," she advised her audience, "always be suspicious of icons." And indeed she ...

Znet Article Hass: The PA's hollow protests

Znet Article, March, 13 2008 Amira Hass
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Senior Palestinian Authority officials can justifiably say that settlement construction continues despite everyone's protests and condemnations - not only theirs. Europe is protesting, Peace Now is protesting, the United Nations is protesting and ...

Znet Article Hass: Our Violent Presence

Znet Article, February, 18 2008 Amira Hass
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There is no Israeli whose presence in the West Bank is neutral. Civilian or armed, soldier or woman settler, resident of a quality-of-life settlement or a nearby outpost, MahsomWatch activist or guest at a settlement, Bezek worker or client at a P...

Znet Article Hass: Democratic Suspicion

Znet Article, February, 06 2008 Amira Hass
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A public sector strike in Palestine reveals both the power of the collective and suspicions as to the motives of the leading class.

Znet Article Hass: Finally, a popular uprising

Znet Article, January, 30 2008 Amira Hass
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The fall of the Rafah wall was a fitting combination of planning and the precise reading of the social and political map by the Hamas government, mixed with a mass response to the dictates of the overlord, Israel.

Znet Article Hass: They neither see nor remember

Znet Article, January, 23 2008 Amira Hass
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The bankruptcy of Israel's policy of military escalation.

Znet Article Hass: A Thorn in the Shin Bet's Side

Znet Article, January, 13 2008 Amira Hass
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About a month ago, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti was invited to the Italian Consulate in Jerusalem to receive a citation of honor from the government of Italy. The consulate submitted requests to the Israeli authorities for 15 entry permits to Jerusalem, ...

Znet Article Hass: The right to explode in anger

Znet Article, December, 28 2007 Amira Hass
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The negotiations over the future of our land, from the sea to the river, and the two peoples living in it, are proceeding along two parallel channels. It has been that way since the Madrid and Oslo talks for 17 years now. One channel is between th...

Znet Article Hass: Two non-states

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Amira Hass
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Who says there is no cooperation between the Palestinian Authority/Fatah and Hamas? Indeed, ever since June the two sides have been working energetically, in a kind of pas de deux of demonstrative pirouettes, so that the Gaza Strip will become ano...

Znet Article Hass: Israel Has Turned The Gaza Strip Into A Zoo

Znet Article, October, 16 2007 Amira Hass
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A zoo. This is one of the ways that Palestinians describe the conditions under which nearly 1.5 million of them have been living: in an area of some 360 square kilometers, closed in on three sides by sophisticated barbed-wire fences, concrete wall...

Znet Article Hass: Back to a corrupt occupation

Znet Article, August, 01 2007 Amira Hass
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In one of the alarming news items of the past week, it was reported that Israel has green-lighted the transfer of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the security forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. This is not the first time Isr...

Znet Article Hass: Words instead of actions

Znet Article, May, 21 2007 Amira Hass
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Words instead of actions

Znet Article Hass: The Holocaust as political asset

Znet Article, April, 29 2007 Amira Hass
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The cynicism inherent in the attitude of the institutions of the Jewish state to Holocaust survivors is not a revelation to those born and living among them. We grew up with the yawning gap between the presentation of the State of Israel as the pl...

Znet Article Hass: Not only the right to worship is sacred

Znet Article, October, 26 2006 Amira Hass
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On Fridays of the month of Ramadan, the Palestinians once again proved the extent to which they ...

Znet Article Hass: Even Palestinian-Americans are being turned back at the border

Znet Article, October, 21 2006 Amira Hass
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During the summer months, the city was "empty," according to people in Ramallah and the neighboring city of El Bireh. Residents of both cities, as well as of the surrounding villages, employed this hyperbole to express the extent to which they fel...

Znet Article Hass: What are 20 tons of explosives?

Znet Article, October, 20 2006 Amira Hass
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Hamas has smuggled 20 tons of explosives into the Gaza Strip, and that is aside from the anti-aircraft and antitank missiles. That is what the Israel Defense Forces has calculated, and it made sure to pump this frightening information into the Isr...

Znet Article Hass: Not an internal Palestinian matter

Znet Article, October, 14 2006 Amira Hass
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The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called `what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens.` The...

Znet Article Hass: Missing the government of thieves

Znet Article, September, 28 2006 Amira Hass
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Slogans shouted at rallies sound better when they rhyme. "Not Ismail, not Haniyeh, we want back the government of haramiyeh." Haramiyeh means thieves, and the protesters in Ramallah - Palestinian Authority workers who have not received their sal...

Znet Article Hass: In the name of security, but not for its sake

Znet Article, September, 22 2006 Amira Hass
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Six Palestinian churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip suffered damage and arson attempts in reaction to the words of Pope Benedict XVI. Palestinian spokesmen of all stripes condemned these attacks and said that the Palestinian nation - Christia...

Znet Article Hass: Can You Really Not See?

Znet Article, September, 02 2006 Amira Hass
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Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because "God chose us." Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commander...

Znet Article Hass: Nasrallah Didn't Mean To

Znet Article, August, 20 2006 Amira Hass
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During the past month, Hezbollah's Katyushas killed 18 Israeli Arabs among the 41 Israeli civilians who died in the war. Clearly, Hassan Nasrallah didn't mean to kill them. But as someone who knows that many Arabs live in northern Israel, and as s...

Znet Article Hass: Their Power Of Endurance

Znet Article, August, 11 2006 Amira Hass
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Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station would dismiss as feminine and sentimental the view that peoples don't win wars. Like other Arab analysts, they regard attacking Israeli civilians and engaging the IDF in fierce battles as an Arab victory. Bu...

Znet Article Hass: Hungry And Shell-Shocked

Znet Article, April, 27 2006 Amira Hass
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Gaza - Where will the next blow land? That is the question. Not if it will come, but rather when, and on whom will it land, and what kind will it be? Five-year-old L. believes the solution is to sleep every night in his parents' bed, and in that ...

Znet Article Hass: The Uber-Wardens

Znet Article, April, 13 2006 Amira Hass
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Two weeks ago, on Election Day, at 8 A.M., drivers wishing to leave Tul Karm from the eastern exit (toward Anabta) discovered that their permits were invalid. A soldier at the checkpoint, who prevented the passage of the drivers, apologized: Today...

Znet Article Hass: Playing Two Different Games

Znet Article, March, 17 2006 Amira Hass
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The Palestinians are busy forming a government. It is too early to say how the events in Jericho will affect its composition, but what in the past was an internal game of musical chairs among Fatah and its satellites - a competition over personal ...

Znet Article Hass: A Cruel Equation

Znet Article, March, 06 2006 Amira Hass
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"Now everything depends on your will and your decision. If you want to study for a doctorate in Haifa .... that's where you will study, under my guidance," Anna Sfard, a professor of mathematics education, told a student who had just completed his...

Znet Article Hass: A Nation Of Beggars

Znet Article, March, 03 2006 Amira Hass
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It is not the Palestinians who should be welcoming the European Union's decision to hastily donate another $142 million before the Hamas government is formed. It is Israel that ought to be pleased that the Western states will continue compensating...

Znet Article Hass: Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 Amira Hass
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It is evidently difficult to scrub off the sticker that is glued onto the front window. That's why when a new car from Germany or South Korea or the United States rolls onto the packed streets of Gaza or Ramallah, it generally has the big label wi...

Znet Article Hass: Israel cuts Jordan Rift from rest of West Bank

Znet Article, February, 16 2006 Amira Hass
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While the international community busied itself with the disengagement from the Gaza Strip last summer, Israel completed another cut-off process, which went unnoticed; In 2005, Israel completed a process of sealing off the eastern sector of the We...

Znet Article Hass: Revenge Is The Word In The Background

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 Amira Hass
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The young woman who came into the corner grocery in the Jenin refugee camp did not hide her hostility when told there was an Israeli guest. It seemed that it was even difficult for her to sit in the same room as the guest, whom the grocer honored ...

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